Moisture/mould in rear passenger door quarterlight

Hi Guys.

Ive got a problem with mould/mildew forming in the quarterlight of the rear passenger door in my 5 door FL1 52 Plate. I've checked for moisture coming in on the window but the main window which goes up and down is fine with no problems at all. The small quarterlight on the rear door has a lot of mould/mildew on the inside which has built up so much it is forcing the inner seal up at the bottom. I had this problem last year and sprayed it with some kitchen cleaner and cleaned it off and it was fine over summer.

I'm really stumped as to why its only affecting the non moving part of the rear doors windows. The outer seal all looks in good nick with no cuts or obvious leaks, and no mildew on the outer seal either. I'm really stumped about this, and normally wouldn't be bothered by this, but over Christmas when visiting family in Scotland the freelander is normally the warhorse of the family picking family & friends up and generally bailing people out of the **** in the snow. I'll be having a lot of kids in it over Christmas and the last thing I want them doing is getting a handful of this crap in their mouths.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I'm stumped. It is only on this one side of the car on this certain seal.

thanks
John

Interesting point.
My wife pointed out to me this week that her recently aquired 2006 TD4 is holding water in exactly the same place and I was going to take it back to the dealer for them to look at it. As you say, no obvious leak so I was wondering if it was just a location where condensation forms?

wipe it clean with some polycell mold and mildew remover. Stop worrying about it, could be the ird next.

Hi Howardo.

I will do that. Not worried about it like that, just don't like having niggling problems like this with no obvious cause. And if a kid get's a gob full of green stuff, I'm sure it won't do them any good. I'd rather the IRD or VCU give me jip than an angry mum, I can get my hands dirty and reason with that

Litch - I was thinking it could be condensation too. The bottom edge of the rear windows seem to attract condensation with mist & droplets forming in the winter. Perhaps because this glass is sealed (unlike the moving windows which have been going up and down and probably are no longer 100% sealed) the water stays gathered and forms this gunk.